A meeting described as a negotiation attempt was held this morning, but it quickly turned authoritative when the administration of CP — Comboios de Portugal announced their decision to carry out management actions, as stated by the Federação dos Sindicatos de Transportes e Comunicações (Fectrans) in an official online publication.
According to labor representatives, CP’s administration decided to implement, retroactive to January, the second option it presented to union structures on March 31. This option includes a salary increase of 34 euros for wages up to 2,631.62 euros and a 1.7% increase for wages equal to or above this amount, along with a meal subsidy of 10.20 euros.
Fectrans emphasized, “We are faced with an administrative position unanimously rejected by the organizations present at the meeting, and we will discuss subsequent steps to defend the appreciation of salaries and professions.”
The unions argue that this increase causes a compression relative to the national minimum wage, which will “certainly worsen CP’s structural problem of failing to recruit new workers and retain current ones.”
Regarding the report compiled by the unions and the administration that calls on the government for exceptional measures, without affecting normal negotiations, such as restoring the wage disparity from 2018, a 4% increase in the second half of this year, and reducing duration at pay levels, the administration has stated that the document has already been sent to the relevant ministry, and a response is awaited.
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